It seems I can’t stop making things with leaves 🍃 . I just put these pieces in the kiln to bake. I’m using a new bronze metal clay recipe so I’m really hoping that everything goes according to plan. Fingers crossed 🤞 that tonight I’ll have some new pieces to offer. #bronzemetalclay #metalclay https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp5OGjOgRUj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=67tfpn1j5rjc
The lady who left her credit card at my table came to pick it up today. Apparently she had no idea she left it. She was wrangling three kids that day in all that mass of people. I’m glad to finally get it back to her.
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Whenever I meet someone from tumblr that I’ve never met IRL before, they always say something to the effect of loving how open and honest and expressive I am.
Really? Cause I only post about 2% of what’s actually going on inside my head here. And I feel like I censor myself a lot. I feel like my blog has basically become a boring jewelry maker’s diary. I dunno if I’d read it if I wasn’t me. But thanks anyway for sticking around guys. That means a lot.
You get happier as you get older.
A 32-year study found that the largest
percentage of people who reported
being ‘very happy’ were over 80.
Some of the factors that indicated
happiness were having a significant
other, being healthy, and having
no children. SourceSource 2
Yeah! Genetics are fascinating to me, in terms of how they “show up” in people, because you are right that it varies amount close family members, even.
Yes! My brother and sister look nothing like me… show no Asian heritage whatsoever. They are both extremely fair and look like they could be bi-racial maybe (Black & White mixed) but you can’t see anything else in them. It’s so weird!
Tbh, if you came here to Van, you’d probably see a lot of folks who look like you, since Van has a high percentage of the population being from both South Asia and East Asia.
Our Indian population is about 40% here. Interestingly enough Indian people in Trinidad don’t claim me as one of their own. Ever. Even though it’s obvious I’m part Indian. But it’s because I’m mixed with something else they don’t care for lol.
South Asian includes India right? Maybe it is because here in Vancouver there are a lot of folks who originate from India and Pakistan, but I could always see the Indian features in you very strongly
Yes south asian is india and pakistan. It shows a lot on me. My mom is half Indian and I show it a lot more than she does. I think maybe I just “got” more of it… if that’s possible.
I showed a picture of your hair to a friend cause I loved it and she identified you as India Indian mix. So some see that side first I guess makes sense no?
The interesting thing about it is that people tend to see what they are or what they’re familiar with. North Africans always think I’m from there, many Arabic people think I’m Arabic, people who are familiar with Indian people see the Indian in me (which I think is actually very prominent in my features) so it really depends on who is looking at me. I just really never thought of myself as predominantly Asian but I guess the genes don’t lie.
I’ve definitely never thought of myself as mostly Asian… but according to my DNA that’s what I am. It all comes from my mother’s side too which is interesting. I have African heritage on both sides but Asian is dominant. I may have to rethink my whole identity now..
That’s a big one. I’ve had it, I’ve lost it, I’ve found it again…
I was raised Catholic but it never spoke to me. Even as a child the fundamental idea of fearing God was something I vehemently rejected. I had a deep connection to God as I defined it and my God was loving, forgiving, compassionate, understanding and kind. I don’t believe in religion as a concept, but I understand how people can need it. I feel that no one can tell me what is right more than my heart, my soul, and I follow that.
My connection to what I call God has changed, it’s wavered, it’s gone, returned and undergone a lot of transformation in my life. I prefer to call the bigger than me energy “the universe” rather than God because I still struggle with the idea of a gendered God. I don’t believe there’s a person-like being judging us. But I do believe in something larger than myself. I believe there are many manifestations of that energy and some of them have been called gods and goddesses and I connect with some of those too. Ultimately I think we’re all part of the same thing.
Where faith is concerned… I think having faith is very difficult. In this world we’re often taught that to get where we want, what we want, it requires hard work, will, determination and nothing else. Faith is that belief in the unseen, and it’s a struggle. I’ve had many moments in my life that literally brought me to my knees, and at those points, faith that it would get better was the only thing that kept me going. I believe we are not alone and I believe we receive signs, especially when we are struggling, to help urge us on. I’ve had many, many, many experiences in my life that helped me in that way. Even so, it’s still difficult sometimes to have faith. To trust that there’s a path, a plan, a purpose. We are often so mired in our difficulties that we cannot see the pattern, how things connect. It’s only with distance we can see why we went through something and how it prepared us for our next step. This is why I’m always careful about what pray for. Sometimes the way you get it can be the hard way. I’ve wanted to give up many times on many things. Something always came to me that helped me to keep going. A song, a word, a book, a kind word… they helped give me enough faith to stay the course. But having faith has always been hard for me. Faith has a lot to do with trust. And that is not something I am good at.
3. What’s your astrological sign? Do you pay attention to horoscopes?
I’m a Capricorn. I think, as far as Capricorn personality traits go I’m kind of pretty typical. I also have a lot of Sagittarius in my chart which I think brings a bit of fun to my personality. I’ve had my chart read professionally and I found it really interesting but astrology hasn’t been something that resonated with me that much. I do find that the traits people attribute to the signs are often very true. I’ve never paid attention to horoscopes… it’s fun and all but really I see it as a broad generalization. I do have friends who are into it and they let me know when we’re going through stuff like retrogrades and honestly most of what they say is gonna happen tends to happen. I don’t understand astrology enough to really comment much on it. If I want to know what’s coming up for me I can read cards. That works for me. But I wouldn’t ignore it either.
2. Do you remember your dreams? Do you have any reoccurring dreams?
I do pretty often. I almost always have lucid dreams, where I know I’m dreaming and I can somewhat control the direction of the dreams. My dream world has always been quite an adventurous place to me. I have very clear recollection of dreams I’ve had years ago. I often play out my anxieties and fears in my dreams too… those are not much fun.
I do have some recurring dreams in a way. I dream about my father pretty often. These days he’s just another player in the dreams. It’s comforting to see him there. We don’t always talk or interact. I used to have flying dreams a lot when I was younger. These days they come more like I want to hover or float and I can do that but I don’t travel out over the city and stuff like I used to. I’ve had many dreams where I was trying to run and was frustrated that I couldn’t move as fast as I wanted to. There’s the ever popular teeth falling out or being loose dreams. Thankfully I haven’t had one of those in a while.
I think this ring looks really nice in the pic but it can’t even begin to compare to how pretty it looks in person. Rose cut amethyst set in 14k gold filled. Come to Bits and Pieces tomorrow and see it for yourself. You might just have to take it home! .
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This ring sold today. The girl who bought it said she saw it on Instagram and came to the market just to buy it (it’s her birthstone). And she agreed, it was much more beautiful in person. Social media works man.
A friend of mine who is highly intuitive shared a vision she saw of me in the future. And it was the exact thing I’ve been dreaming of, planning for, speaking into existence for years now. I’ve never shared it with her. But yeah my goal has always been to have my own store with a built in studio space. I’ve been envisioning it forever. And that’s what she saw.
A woman left her credit card at my table today. I contacted her via Facebook but she hasn’t responded yet. I was sort of stressing about it until I remembered she can just cancel it. If she realizes it’s missing that is. I’d really just like to get it back to her though. It’s making me uncomfortable.
I went on her fb friends list and we had a few friends in common (including two of my cousins go figure Trinidad is so damn small) and I contacted the person I thought was most likely to do something about it (not my cousins) and she got on to her and gave her my number. She’s coming to pick it up tomorrow. She didn’t even realise it was missing.
A woman left her credit card at my table today. I contacted her via Facebook but she hasn’t responded yet. I was sort of stressing about it until I remembered she can just cancel it. If she realizes it’s missing that is. I’d really just like to get it back to her though. It’s making me uncomfortable.
I’m kind of wired right now. I’ve been going since 5:30 this morning and I’m not really tired. No I’m exhausted but I guess all the activity of that day still has me buzzing. I have a feeling I’m gonna crash really hard at some point. But I guess I’ll catch up on my tv shows until then.
I had my biggest market of the year today, one that I’ve been working really hard to build up new stock for and stretch my limits on the kinds of pieces I’ve been making.
And I did amazing. Better than I’ve ever done. I looked at my table before the rush came in and surveyed all my work and I felt so proud of myself. I really pushed myself this year to learn new skills, to expand my line, and the response I got was so overwhelmingly positive. People told me they came just to see me! I feel like a million bucks right now. And this is just the start of the season.
I also had fantastic help from my friend Camille who was the best possible sales person and companion. I have to do something special for her to thank her. I took her to dinner but it doesn’t feel like enough. I’ve banned her from buying any of my pieces because I really want her to save for a car, but I know there’s a ring I made that she absolutely loves and it sold today but I want to make her another one. That will mean more to her than any money I can give her. She did such an amazing job.
I think this ring looks really nice in the pic but it can’t even begin to compare to how pretty it looks in person. Rose cut amethyst set in 14k gold filled. Come to Bits and Pieces tomorrow and see it for yourself. You might just have to take it home! .
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dogs are so pure. i cant even believe this small little thing is barking at its own little stomach for creating hiccups inside of him.
This has brightened my day like a doge shaped ray of sunshine ❤
My sweet boy used to get these, I would tell him he was a good boy and that I loved him and rubbed the spot between his eyes, it stopped the hiccups each time ❤
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
This was her then:
This is literally how she looks in 2017.
She’s literally not even old.
Some of those people in that crowd are VOTING this year. Their children raised by them are voting this year. And they want to Make America Great Again.
I just love the flash on this gorgeous labradorite ring! Set I. A hammered sterling silver band, I’ll have a few of these available at Bits and Pieces and Saturday! .
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Another great thing about freedom from a toxic person is no longer needing their validation. You don’t have to check with them what is and what isn’t acceptable for you to do, say, eat, think, believe, etc. You don’t have to worry about what you post in fear that they will judge or punish you. You don’t have to hide your interests, hobbies and preferences. You no longer require their validation.
I just watched the final of GBBO and I’m in a heap of tears. What an amazing end to the season. I would have been really happy with the outcome no matter who won. That’s all I’ll say.
I know! Cause she was going in about a lot of these unscrupulous Chinese vendors passing resin off as stone. And I don’t know about you but I get a lot of my stones from China. I’ve never had an issue. Their customer service sucks but their products are as advertised. So I was really curious how she was so unlucky lol.
It did annoy me a bit but at that point everything was annoying me.
Yes, poor howlite, always being used to scam as turquoise. That happens, sometimes due to ignorance. But yes I’ve never seen resin passed off as stone either. Like how? I don’t know what she was talking about (or where she’s shopping).
There’s a new restaurant opening up the street and they described their food as “comfort food” and they have mac and cheese with chorizo on the menu and I think I will go opening day to try it out cause that sounds like my kind of eatery.
As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various
social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our
TOS,” seeing what RPGnet is doing is a welcome breath of fresh air.
I got the, “Is this real?” question again this weekend from a woman who was examining my bracelets.
I decided to ask her what she meant and she went on to explain that many stones aren’t really stones at all but actually resin. She further explained how one can tell them apart. She said there are a lot of unscrupulous suppliers selling resin pieces as real stone. I just nodded my head and smiled.
The thing is I know they sell a lot of stones, druzies in particular, that are imitation, made of resin. But I’ve never seen them passed off as real stones. They’re always marked as resin. The price is always the first giveaway. But also you can’t really pass a resin piece off as the real thing. It’s pretty obvious. They don’t weigh the same. They’re also much warmer to the touch. They don’t feel like stone either.
So yeah there she was all touching up my stones and I just thought for someone who seemed to know so much about it she shouldn’t have needed to ask. She came back a second time to look at them again. Didn’t buy any. But like, whatever.
Prehistoric humans used obsidian as cutting implements. Amazingly, we still haven’t come up with something that can beat obsidian – obsidian scalpels are many times sharper than surgical scalpels made of steel.
When performing a healing on someone the Curandera will often sweep the aura/energy field with sacred herbs and blow smoke on the individual….This can clear the negativity or entities that are causing the ailment.
I’m lying here thinking up ring designs in my head and I’m getting excited and I want to rush out and make something right now. But it’s 1am and I should actually go to bed. The designs will still be there in the morning.
I was scrolling on facebook today and I saw a news article come up about a robbery and they had pictures of the guys they arrested and I knew one of them. He’s not a friend, but he used to work for a friend of mine and we hung out by default sometimes. I was never fond of him, I found him a bit immature, but I didn’t get a criminal vibe from him either and he was actually growing on me. But this is not the first incident he’s been involved in. The last one… well he gave some story that made it look like he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Clearly that wasn’t true. I guess this is the life he’s turned to. It’s kind of confusing to process. I thought he was a good guy. Was he? Did he just get desperate? I don’t have answers.
mm…well stereotypes exist cuz of truth but often times we have been programmed to believe as such..unless its another demographic
well it’s like this… i watch how people move around my stuff carefully because theft is always a possibility. when people move a certain way it draws my attention. and i think it’s a coincidence that they’ve always been a certain gender and race but that’s been my observation. obviously I don’t think they’re they only ones capable… anyone is. but somehow when i pick up that vibe it comes from them. I find it more curious than anything else.
I was really just going to make an observation… that people who move shady like they’re looking to steal at markets always fall into a certain racial demographic… that i’ve observed anway…
I was gonna write something here but I realised it would probably have come across as racist to anyone who isn’t Trinidadian. I think we speak about race much more openly than a lot of other places and I think, to people outside of our culture, it sounds shocking at times. I find it refreshing, personally, to be able to be that open about it. But I’m mindful of my audience.
When I post a product pic on Facebook and people write, “cost” underneath it I feel something tighten in my chest. You don’t have to write me a letter but some courtesy would be nice. The word please would be nice.
I just got one of those and I responded with a good afternoon and then told them the cost. Have some manners there’s a person not a robot answering you question.
I have to confess I’ve never understood what the big deal was about Krispy Kreme donuts. The first time I had them I was disappointed. Not because they weren’t good but because they weren’t amazing. I expected a lot more. But I mean they’re donuts. How complicated can it get? They didn’t live up to the hype. Then again what does?
I’m tired. This market did not turn out as any of us expected. It’s been slow all day. I made half as much sales as I anticipated. It’s a well known market. For some reason this year people haven’t come. Could be the economy, the floods, other stuff happening today… but I really hope it’s not an indication of things to come this season. The good thing is that me and a bunch of my girlfriends ended up with tables next to each other so we at least have company and solidarity. But it’s been a long, difficult day. I’m hungry and irritated. I just got mad at a girl because of the way she tossed her hair. I’ll be happy when today is over. I’m exhausted.
I have a really big market tomorrow. I just finished making stock and packing up. I have some new displays I want to use tomorrow so I’m not sure how I’m gonna set up my space. I looked at my stock today and I have SO MUCH STUFF. Which is great because I will have my biggest market of the year coming up next Saturday. I’m hoping I won’t have to make anything new for a while. But if I do then I just means that I sold out everything which is also really great (I can’t see how but one can hope). I’m tired. I’m gonna head to bed in a little while and try my best to wind down. Up at 5:30 tomorrow. Wish me luck!
I’m working on some last minute bracelets and I can’t get over how gorgeous some of these stones are. I’m really having a hard time not keeping them for myself 😛 YOU on the other hand can come take your pick tomorrow at the Janouras Christmas Bazaar at the Hilton. Doors open at 10. First one to buy a bracelet gets a discount! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpc8Pw-h48f/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=194uql42l172t
I wonder if singing is one of those things that you can just do well? Like without having to train or whatever?
Like I mean you can be artistically talented naturally but you still have to work really hard at it and practice a lot to get to a place where you’re producing good work. But it seems to me that you can be a good singer without having to do all of that. Not that you can’t be a better singer with work and practice but I think some people can just do it well right out the gate.
Music isn’t like that (playing an instrument I mean). Art isn’t like that. It must be pretty cool to just have great pipes. I envy that.
I really should not be driving through downtown Port of Spain on an empty stomach. I ready to cuss somebody.
Imagine we in traffic and dis man just stop and park his car right dere in de lane. No indicator nuttin. We on independence square. All de cars jus jam up so when I realise he not moving I res some horn on he ass and he waving me to go round him. I already up in his ass cause of course I thought he was driving so I hadda squeeze round him an when I ask him to move up so I could pass he eh movin.
He lucky my passenger window doh go dong. An he givin me attitude on top ah all dat. Hear nah… steupssssssssssssssssss.
“There is no war on drugs because you cannot have a war against inanimate objects. There is only war on drug addicts. Which means we are warring on the most abused and vulnerable segments of the population.”
– Dr Gabor Maté | Capitalism Makes us Crazy
Gabor Maté is sincerely among the most empathetic human beings I’ve ever heard speak. I really feel like the things that man has to say are an excellent way forward for people who want to build a society founded on compassion and care.
I can’t hear the song “Rainbow Connection” without wanting to cry. Ever since I was a kid. It’s just so beautiful and emotive and sweet. I’ve always been a dreamer…
soulsistrin 